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Post by huojin on Feb 18, 2016 4:01:48 GMT
Can I make a request/solicit some ideas from people?
I've been thinking about an eventuality where Spain and Italy fall into a dynastic/personal union in the late 19th/early 20th century. What kind of flag might people imagine for such an eventuality? I've been examining examples of flags that follow a similar pattern, from the Union Flag, to the flag of the Protectorate (i.e. the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland), to Austria-Hungary, to Sweden-Norway, but I've yet to find something that looks quite right.
Any thoughts?
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Post by Kubo Caskett on Feb 18, 2016 5:22:34 GMT
I quite realized that I haven't added any flags to this forum since I joined up but I'll make up for that starting today.
Anyway, the first flag I'm posting here is one from a North Korea that becomes a puppet of China after the Kim Dynasty falls in the near future.
I'll post the rest I made in the past after a good night's sleep.
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Post by TheAven on Feb 28, 2016 17:08:18 GMT
I'm a big fan of flags with national patterns on them (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, etc.) and I decided to see what some other flags would look like. In this case, I reworked the Slovak flag into two variants using an authentically Slovak pattern.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2016 12:59:32 GMT
The Communist Intergalactic Council was an alliance between the Communist and Socialist nations, revolutionary groups and parties across the known galaxy forming shortly after the Cerruon People's Revolutionary uprising which had led to the creation of several communistic and socialistic alliances and nations being established on Cerruon occupied planets including their home planet Beeder. The Soviet Union along with Communist and Socialist nations of the earth and humanity met with the newly established Cerruon Communist bloc known collectively as The Dicacori'l Pact. They agreed to the creation of a United Nations like organisation to initiate unity and mutually beneficial cooperation among the two races. At the time the Soviet Union was undergoing reform with the appointment of a new leader who was bring in a system of more regionally based government that was a must have in a modern multi-planet society and economy. It did not take long for the Soviet Union to fully adopt the new socialistic norm,Neo-Socialism a system that prioritises regional governmental administration rather than the national government on policies of economics and other important aspects of society. 5 years after the formation of the First Human-Cerruon Alliance the leaders of the major nations that made up the alliance met to discuss the formation of a galactic wide alliance that would represent not just their two races but all of the known galaxy including every race that would deal with issues such as trade, military cooperation, border control and mutual defence as well as funding and supporting revolutionary groups that were trying to establish communism and socialism in their countries.The Communist Intergalactic Council officially formed In 2125 with its eventual collapse occurring in 2180 because of The Great Red War.
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Post by Rhand on Mar 21, 2016 2:28:36 GMT
A flag for a random thought I had. Going back to the Decades of Darkness Timeline, what if the United States lost to the Halifax Powers, and the end result was economic depression, suffering, and upheaval? And after that, a violent Populist coalition that gained power in the American hinterlands (remember that DoD America is much more agrarian than OTL America)? The end result is something between Maoism and Fascism. This is the flag I came up with. The red represents all the things red does: courage, valor, fortitude, etc. The green represents the fruits of the land. I chose a defaced triband for the design because the triband has always been associated with liberty and revolution (though the new America is a dictatorship). For the eagle, I modified this: i.imgur.com/9dLB6NS.png
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Post by Kubo Caskett on Apr 4, 2016 4:31:36 GMT
Another flag I made this time a very recent one based on a version of China that had a regime change in the book Ghost Fleet. I made sure the flag seemed Chinese enough but not communistic at all. The symbol on top of the fenghuan (the Chinese phoenix) is a Chinese lettering that stands for prosperity; that and it was my first time I made an animal (of some sort) in Inkscape.
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 4, 2016 23:29:19 GMT
Nice work! Maybe we should have a flag competition?
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Post by Krall on Apr 5, 2016 0:41:15 GMT
Nice work! Maybe we should have a flag competition? A flag competition on here would be awesome! I'd offer to run it myself, but I'm already running the Map of the Fortnight contest, as well as the entire forum.
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 5, 2016 13:23:46 GMT
Nice work! Maybe we should have a flag competition? A flag competition on here would be awesome! I'd offer to run it myself, but I'm already running the Map of the Fortnight contest, as well as the entire forum. On AH.com the competition was set by the previous challenges winner, or could be passed onto someone else. They had three separate threads, entries, polls and general discussion. Personally I would think a general thread and poll threads as necessary would be enough. I won't offer to run it because I am not good at commitments, I would probably lose interest fairly quickly if I'm honest with myself. However I'd certainly enter such a competition. Another suggestion I would make would be because we have a smaller membership here - for now - we should make it monthly rather than weekly.
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Post by Krall on Apr 6, 2016 0:55:18 GMT
On AH.com the competition was set by the previous challenges winner, or could be passed onto someone else. They had three separate threads, entries, polls and general discussion. Personally I would think a general thread and poll threads as necessary would be enough. I won't offer to run it because I am not good at commitments, I would probably lose interest fairly quickly if I'm honest with myself. However I'd certainly enter such a competition. Another suggestion I would make would be because we have a smaller membership here - for now - we should make it monthly rather than weekly. I think the way the AH.com flag contest is organised is meant to minimise (or eliminate entirely) the reliance on one person to run the contest. Unfortunately it relies on the winners of each round, and sometimes the winners disappear/forget/go inactive, so it's not actually that reliable. Maybe there's some way to make a system that's reliable but doesn't place too much stress on the contest runner. I don't think making it monthly is a good idea - the map contest is only fortnightly, and maps take a hell of a lot more time and energy to make than flags. Having it be weekly should be fine, I think.
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 6, 2016 13:56:16 GMT
On AH.com the competition was set by the previous challenges winner, or could be passed onto someone else. They had three separate threads, entries, polls and general discussion. Personally I would think a general thread and poll threads as necessary would be enough. I won't offer to run it because I am not good at commitments, I would probably lose interest fairly quickly if I'm honest with myself. However I'd certainly enter such a competition. Another suggestion I would make would be because we have a smaller membership here - for now - we should make it monthly rather than weekly. I think the way the AH.com flag contest is organised is meant to minimise (or eliminate entirely) the reliance on one person to run the contest. Unfortunately it relies on the winners of each round, and sometimes the winners disappear/forget/go inactive, so it's not actually that reliable. Maybe there's some way to make a system that's reliable but doesn't place too much stress on the contest runner. I don't think making it monthly is a good idea - the map contest is only fortnightly, and maps take a hell of a lot more time and energy to make than flags. Having it be weekly should be fine, I think. That makes sense. If nobody wants to run it on an ongoing basis I'll maybe create a few competitions here and there, maybe I'll call it MV's Intermittent Flag Challenge!
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 6, 2016 14:01:12 GMT
Here are some of my flags. link
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Post by Krall on Apr 6, 2016 15:50:47 GMT
Here are some of my flags. link Not bad, I like the look of the alternate Morocco flags in there. What program(s) do you use to make these?
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 6, 2016 18:09:43 GMT
Not bad, I like the look of the alternate Morocco flags in there. What program(s) do you use to make these? Thanks! I tend to use MS Paint (XP version) for rough sketches, and Flash for more measured designs. Sometimes I'll bring it into photoshop for a more detailed or stylised image. For some reason I prefer Flash to Illustrator for making graphics, maybe just because I got used to using it.
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Post by Krall on Apr 6, 2016 23:32:38 GMT
Not bad, I like the look of the alternate Morocco flags in there. What program(s) do you use to make these? Thanks! I tend to use MS Paint (XP version) for rough sketches, and Flash for more measured designs. Sometimes I'll bring it into photoshop for a more detailed or stylised image. For some reason I prefer Flash to Illustrator for making graphics, maybe just because I got used to using it. Have you tried Inkscape at all? I find it very convenient for making flags, mainly because it makes it easy to create and edit basic shapes without having an ugly pixellated border around the whole thing.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 7, 2016 0:30:10 GMT
Thanks! I tend to use MS Paint (XP version) for rough sketches, and Flash for more measured designs. Sometimes I'll bring it into photoshop for a more detailed or stylised image. For some reason I prefer Flash to Illustrator for making graphics, maybe just because I got used to using it. Have you tried Inkscape at all? I find it very convenient for making flags, mainly because it makes it easy to create and edit basic shapes without having an ugly pixellated border around the whole thing. Oi, you got a problem with pixels? I mean, I can understand if you don't like the movie, but that's no reason to hate everything that shares it's name!
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Post by Morty Vicar on Apr 7, 2016 12:32:35 GMT
Have you tried Inkscape at all? I find it very convenient for making flags, mainly because it makes it easy to create and edit basic shapes without having an ugly pixellated border around the whole thing. I downloaded it years ago but I never really got round to using it. Old habits die hard I suppose.. You can make vector images in Flash as well. I'll give Inkscape another go though, if it's free I like to support freeware out of principle.
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Post by Krall on Apr 7, 2016 13:17:28 GMT
I downloaded it years ago but I never really got round to using it. Old habits die hard I suppose.. You can make vector images in Flash as well. I'll give Inkscape another go though, if it's free I like to support freeware out of principle. It is free, yeah. That's another reason why I like it.
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Post by iserlohn on May 4, 2016 20:56:47 GMT
Just a simple design for a French Revolutionary sister republic of "Cisleithania", aka Austria and Bohemia.
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Post by Kubo Caskett on May 10, 2016 16:44:46 GMT
I've got a double whammy this time around, one is a flag of PATO (an expanded future NATO) and a flag of ESCO (an expanded future SCO), both of them relating to an upcoming webcomic of mine:
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